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THE SUNDERING FLOOD
and they turned also, deeming they were safest at home. And so now we will gather the spoil together and wend fair and softly back to East Cheaping.
Even so they did, and great spoil they gathered; and all the footmen gat them horses and rode with the others, so that they all came back safe to the good town before sunset. Thus ended the first riding of the Baron of Deepdale.
